Middle East crisis live: Gaza hostage families press Netanyahu to secure their release; EU in talks with Israeli and Palestinian ministers | Israel-Gaza war

European foreign ministers are to hold separate talks on Monday with their Israeli and Palestinian counterparts on the prospects for lasting peace after Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, rejected calls for a future two-state solution.

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, risked incurring Israel’s wrath by accusing it on Friday of having “created” and “financed” Hamas to undermine the prospect for a possible Palestinian state, Agence France-Presse reports.

He also insisted the only way to get an enduring peace in the region was for a two-state solution to “be imposed from outside”.

While the Israel-Gaza war appears to have driven a long-term solution further out of sight, EU officials insist now is the time to talk about finally resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The 27 EU ministers will first meet with Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, before sitting down separately with the Palestinian Authority’s top diplomat, Riyad al-Maliki.

Katz and Maliki are not expected to meet each other.

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia will also hold talks with the European ministers.

The EU has struggled for a united stance on the conflict in Gaza as staunch backers of Israel such as Germany have rejected demands for an immediate ceasefire made from the likes of Spain and Ireland.

EU officials have sketched out broad conditions for “the day after” the war ends in Gaza, calling for no long-term Israeli occupation, an end to Hamas’s rule and a role for the Palestinian Authority in running the territory.

Relatives and supporters of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have rallied again outside Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem, pitching tents and demanding the Israeli government urgently strike a deal to secure their release.

The protest comes as the prime minister faces intense pressure for their return but rejected what he said were Hamas’s conditions for their release, including that Israel end the war and leave the militant group in power.

At the protest near Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem on Sunday night, Agence France-Presse quoted Gilad Korenbloom, whose son is a hostage in Gaza, as saying:

We are asking our government to listen, to sit down at the negotiating table and decide whether to accept this agreement or any other that would suit Israel.

John Polin, also the father of a hostage, said Israelis served their country and in return “we expect the government to ensure our safety”.

We are asking the government to play its part, to propose an agreement, to bring it to a successful conclusion and to bring the remaining hostages back alive.

Hamas said in its first public report since its deadly 7 October attacks that triggered the war that they were a “necessary step” against Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and a way to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners.

Netanyahu said in a video statement released after the Hamas report that, in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages, Hamas was demanding an end to the war, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, the release of Palestinian prisoners and guarantees that Hamas would stay in power.

“If we accept this, our soldiers have fallen in vain,” and security would not be guaranteed, Netanyahu said.

Hamas seized more than 220 hostages and Israel says about 132 remain in Gaza.

The French defence minister, Sebastien Lecornu, is to meet families of Hamas hostages on Monday before holding talks with Netanyahu and the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant.

Welcome to our continuing live reporting of the Israel-Gaza war and wider Middle East crisis. I’m Adam Fulton and we’ll begin with a rundown on the latest news to bring you up to speed.

Relatives and supporters of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have rallied again outside the Israeli prime minister’s home in Jerusalem, pitching tents and demanding the government urgently strike a deal to secure their release.

The protest comes as Benjamin Netanyahu faces mounting pressure over the hostages’ ongoing captivity but rejected what he said were the militant group’s conditions for their release, including ending Israel’s offensive and leaving Hamas in power.

“I reject outright the terms of surrender of the monsters of Hamas,” he said.

A Hamas official said Netanyahu’s refusal to end the offensive “means there is no chance for the return of the [Israeli] captives”, which are estimated to number 130.

Meanwhile, EU foreign ministers will separately meet their Israeli and Palestinian counterparts – as well as those from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan – on Monday in a string of meetings to discuss the war in Gaza after Netanyahu rejected calls for postwar Palestinian statehood.

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, insisted last week that the only way to get an enduring peace in the region was for a two-state solution to “be imposed from outside”.

In other key developments:

• A total of 25,105 Palestinians have been killed and 62,681 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said on Sunday. The head of the UN, António Guterres, denounced Israel for the “heartbreaking and utterly unacceptable” killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, saying: “Israel’s military operations have spread mass destruction and killed civilians on a scale unprecedented during my time as secretary general.”

• Two US Navy Seals who went missing during an operation to seize Iranian weapons bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been declared dead after a 10-day search failed to locate them, the US military has said. The US central command had previously said that two Seals who were reported as lost at sea were involved in the 11 January operation in which the elite special operations personnel boarded a dhow off the coast of Somalia and seized missile components made in Iran.

• An Israeli strike killed a Hezbollah fighter on Sunday in south Lebanon, a source close to the group said. According to a Lebanese security official, the strike on a car in south Lebanon “killed a member of Hezbollah’s protection team”, while the senior commander he was protecting “escaped death”. The commander was in a vehicle with three other people behind the car that was hit, the official added.

• A strike on Damascus targeting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Syria spy chief and blamed on Israel killed 13 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said in an updated toll. The Guards confirmed it lost five members in Saturday’s strike.

• The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) received 80 trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent via the Rafah border crossing with Israel over the weekend. The trucks carried food, water, relief items and medical supplies, the PRCS said, adding that no trucks entered through the Karm Abu Salem crossing.

• The US said it was taking an attack by Iran-backed militants on an Iraq base “extremely seriously”. On Saturday, the US military said “multiple ballistic missiles and rockets” were fired by Iran-backed militants at al-Asad airbase in western Iraq, while an official said US personnel suffered minor injuries.

• The UK’s defence secretary, Grant Shapps, described Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition to a Palestinian state as “disappointing”, while Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, condemned the Israeli prime minister’s stance. Netanyahu’s spokesperson claimed that in a phone call on Friday with Joe Biden, the Israeli leader told the US president that his country’s security needs left no space for a sovereign Palestinian state.